N.Z. aid given to insurgents
NZPA Bangkok New Zealand announced yesterday that it was giving $45,600 to Kampuchea’ antiVietnamese insurgents to demonstrate its opposition to Hanoi’s occupation of the country. The Foreign Minister, Mr Cooper, told Foreign Ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (A.S.E.A.N.) — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand — that the funds were for medical and other humanitarian ourposes. A.S.E.A.N. supports noncommunist members of the anti-Vietnamese coalition led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk. The money was handed over to Mr Son Sann, Prime Minister of the A.S.E.A.N.backed Kampuchean coalition Government, for the use of his Khmer Peoples National Liberation Front, and would be spent in Thailand, Mr Cooper said.
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